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chaosophia218:

Abraham Eleazar - Uraltes chymisches Werk, 1734.

theoccultus:

Anima Mundi, orThe Soul of the World. The Anima Mundi is the feminine creative power of God who turns the sphere of the stars and disperses planetary influences to nourish the material world.

The Anima Mundi appears in The History of the Macrocosm and the Microcosm of Robert Fludd, who described her as a “supreme intelligence” of “an angelic nature.”

As man (the microcosm) has a soul, so must the macrocosm have a soul, Fludd said. The engraving of the Anima Mundi shows a virgin joined to God by a chain that descends through the levels of the hierarchy of Existence. 

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sprightlymind:

i. A magical miscellany, early 17th century. (MS. e Mus. 173, folios 61v – 62r)
ii. The Rawlinson necromantic manuscript, 15th century. (MS. Rawl. D. 252, fol. 28v)
iii. The Rawlinson necromantic manuscript, 15th century. (MS. Rawl. D. 252, fol. 29r)

A selection of texts from the Bodleian Library’s summer exhibition - Magical Books: From the Middle Ages to Middle-earth.

Although many seventeenth-century magical manuscripts were no longer written in Latin, their authoritative mystique was preserved in the use of complex occult alphabets and mystical symbols. This miscellany contains relatively straightforward instructions of how ‘to see by thy selfe … in a crystall stone’ or ‘get treasure out of the sea’, but it also includes these elaborate magical charms. The circle bottom right wards off violent death ‘by sword and poison’. It is sealed with the spell-word ‘Abracalabra’ [sic] and promises the user ‘Verum est’ (It is true!). (x)

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insatiable-wendigo:

TIME FOR SOME HALLOWEEN EDUCATION, BITCHES

CUZ MAMA BE TIRED OF HEARIN ABOUT THIS SHIT SO PIPE THE FUCK DOWN AND LISTEN UP

I BE SEEING THESE TWO SYMBOLS MISUSED EVERY YEAR. PEOPLE TALKIN ABOUT THE ONE ON THE RIGHT BE USED FOR SATANISM AND THAT IS JUST RE-DONKEY-LESS.

FIRST

PENTACLE ON THE LEFT…IF YOU BE DOING YOUR MAGIC RIGHT YOU UNDERSTAND THAT EACH POINT OF THE STAR REPRESENTS ONE OF THE FOUR ELEMENTS. TOP POINT OF THE STAR REPRESENTS THE SPIRIT. FOR SOME PEOPLE, THIS BE GOD, FOR SOME THIS BE THE NATURAL ELECTRIC ENERGY OF THE UNIVERSE, FOR SOME THIS BE SPIFFY-DAMNED MOTHER NATURE OR THE GODDESS HERSELF. 

WHEN YOU USE THIS PENTACLE, YOU ARE PLACING THE SPIRIT IN A POINT OF RESPECT AND VALUE BY PUTTING IT AS THE JIFFY LUBE TOP RIGHT UP THERE. RIGHT THE FUCK UP THERE. MEANS THE SPIRIT (GOD/GODDESS/ENERGY OF THE WORLD) IS HIGHER THAN ALL ELSE THAT IS MATERIAL AND YOU ARE ASKING FOR SOMETHING IMMATERIAL (GOOD THINGS TO HAPPEN TO YOU, ATTRACTING POSITIVITY, GOOD FORTUNE E-FUCKING-CETERA)

NOW THE ONE ON THE RIGHT

THE PENTAGRAM 

NOTICE ITS CALLED SOMETHING FUCKING DIFFERENT

THE PENTAGRAM GOTS THAT SPIRIT POINT AT THE BOTTOM NOW DONT IT. CAN YOU I-SPY THAT LITTLE FACTOID? SPIRIT POINT AT THE BOTTOM, OTHER FOUR ELEMENTS ABOVE IT.

THIS MEANS WHATEVER YOU BE TRYING TO GET IS MATERIAL. YOU’RE PLACING THE SPIRIT AND ENERGY OF THE WORLD AS LESS IMPORTANT THAN THE MATERIAL GAIN YOU’RE TRYING TO ACHIEVE (ATTRACTING MONEY, LOVE, YADDA FUCKING YADDA)

THE REASON MOST SPIRITUAL CIRCLES WHO ACTIVELY USE THE PENTACLE STAR REFER TO THE PENTAGRAM AS BEING ‘BLACK MAGIC’ IS BECAUSE ITS FOR MATERIAL GAIN, WHICH CAN BE CONSIDERED BLACK MAGIC BECAUSE MATERIAL GAIN HAS TO BE TAKEN FROM SOMEONE ELSE.
POSITIVITY ALREADY EXISTS AND YOU’RE SURROUNDING YOURSELF WITH IT, SO DOES GOOD FORTUNE… MONEY.. AND LOVE… COMES AT THE COST OF TAKING IT FROM SOMEONE ELSE.

REVIEW FOR THE TEST

PENTACLE- SPIRIT AT THE TOP. CALLING ENERGY. POSITIVE. 

PENTAGRAM- SPIRIT AT THE BOTTOM. MATERIAL GAIN. EQUATED OFTEN WITH SELFISH NEED. 

NOTHING TO DO WITH THE BLOODY DEVIL OR BAPHOMET

JESUS POWER-BOTTOMING CHRIST

stop it.

and don’t mess with Ouija boards.

what’s wrong with you.

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dr-archeville:

Ancient & Magickal Alphabets

• Cuneiform
• Hieratic (“shorthand cursive hieroglyphs”)
• Demotic (Egyptian; not to be confused with Demotic Greek)
• Hebrew alphabet (note that there are many versions of the Hebrew language)
• Greek alphabet
• Futhark runic alphabet
• Ogham (“Celtic Tree alphabet”)
• Pictish
• Theban alphabet, aka Honorian alphabet or Runes of Honorius
• Chaldean (the Syriac alphabet?)
• Malachim alphabet
• Magi, Alphabet of the
• Celestial Alphabet/Angelic Script (not to be confused with John Dee’s Enochian alphabet)
• Passing the River/Passage du Fleuve/Transitus Fluvii
• Masonic/Rosicrucian/Pigpen Cipher/Tic-Tac-Toe Cipher
• Tengwar script (for Tolkien’s Elvish languages)
• Angerthas/Certhas/Cirth (for Tolkien’s Dwarven languages)

Celestial Alphabet/Angelic Script, Malachim, and Passing the River were made up by 16th century German alchemist/astrologer/lawyer/magician/occultist/soldier/theologist Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa.  Theban was created by 15th century German cryptographer/historian/lexicographer/occultist/theologian Johannes Trithemius, one of Agrippa’s teachers.  The Alphabet of the Magi was created by 16th century Swiss German alchemist/astrologer/botanist/occultist/physician/toxicologist Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (aka Paracelsus), another of Trithemius’s students, who rejected Agrippa’s magical theories.

More writing systems can be found at Omniglot.

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hazel-willow78:

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whowasntthere:

notcuddles:

ostealjewelry:

mybroomstickcloset:

Fairy rings occupy a prominent place in European folklore as the location of gateways into elfin kingdoms, or places where elves gather and dance. According to the folklore, a fairy ring appears when a fairy, pixie, or elf appears. It will disappear without trace in less than five days, but if an observer waits for the elf to return to the ring, he or she may be able to capture it. They are soooooo beautiful!

fairy rings are usually caused by decaying organic matter, generally a tree stump. many types of fungi have symbiotic relationships with tree roots and mushrooms are the fruiting bodies of such fungus. So if a huge old tree was cut down, you’ll often find fairy rings. they can last for years and years as the earth  reabsorbs all the nutrients left behind by the beautiful tree.

sorry, didn’t mean to crush dreams - but i have a degree in horticulture and i was really excited when i first learned this.

maybe fairies and fungi are joining together to mourn the loss of the tree

xo

NO BUT FINDING OUT ABOUT WHY FAIRY RINGS EXIST IS ALSO REALLY COOL.

From a writer’s perspective, it’s even more interesting to find out why they exist on a horticultural level, because it opens up a whole realm of fictional possibilities. Science doesn’t have to invalidate mythology or fiction, no more than mythology or fiction invalidates science.

For example, doesn’t that just essentially make this a tree grave? And if folklore has taught us anything, it’s that “fairies” and other spirits usually occupy trees, or have them as their life force. And that’s to say nothing of the folklore of trees being spirits in and of themselves, or kitsunes that live in tree hollows, or dryads, etc., etc.. So, if it’s disrespectful or feels like a slight to step on human graves, wouldn’t that logic transfer to stepping inside the Fairy Circle, AKA, the tree’s grave? It’s essentially giving more fuel to the story, not detracting from it, in my humble opinion!

And this is yet another reason I love K — her perspectives are awesome.

Also because the ring is a grave, the death of the tree means the death of the dryad who occupied it. so the dryad spirit would, in death, be a gateway. its spirit joining this world and the Realm of Faerie.

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geometrymatters:

Sacred Geometry in the Solar System and in the Galaxy

© 2001 John Martineau - A little Book of Coincidence

http://www.scribd.com/doc/190983674/John-Martineau-A-Little-Book-of-Coincidence-in-the-Solar-System

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